A Therapist's Guide to Working with Preschool and Primary Children
To be able to effectively offer therapy to children, complex therapeutic concepts need to be presented in an appropriate and engaging manner. This practical guide provides clinicians with a way in which to do so, with numerous games and imaginative activities to help children aged 4-12 to express and understand their ......
the Spectrum of Loss with Individuals and Communities
Drawing on expertise in both expressive arts and grief counselling, this book highlights the use of expressive arts therapeutic methods in confronting and healing grief and bereavement. Establishing a link between these two approaches, it widens our understanding of loss and grief.
Ideas and Activities for Working Therapeutically with Worried Children and Their Families
This book sets out therapeutic activities to help children aged 4-12 years and their families to better understand and manage anxiety. It explains how to work with anxious children, providing a framework for assessment and therapy that draws on CBT, ACT and narrative therapy approaches.
Cornelia Elbrecht graduated with an MA in Art Education in Germany in 1974. In the following decade she trained in Gestalt Therapy, Bioenergetics and in various arts therapies at the School for Initiatic Therapy in the Black Forest, Germany and underwent a 10 year Jungian Analysis. She has worked as a registered art therapist for the past 35 years ......
It can be difficult to be spontaneous during every art therapy group. It is helpful to have a resource full of creative and inspiring ideas that can be utilized as needed. This broad-ranging collection of projects injects variety into art therapy sessions.
Combining rhythmic music and movement with cognitive reflection and mindfulness, this comprehensive handbook shows how drumming and other rhythm-based exercises can have a powerful effect in individual, group and family settings.
Incorporating the latest research on how rhythmic music impacts the brain, this book features over ......
A Trauma-informed Guide for Counselors, Educators and Parents
Riley the Brave is back with a trauma-informed feelings activity book for children ages 5-10. Empower the brave cubs in your life with 60+ games and activities to help them be the boss of their brains. This strengths-based approach is easily adaptable for groups and classrooms. Features an educational introduction for caring adults.
Widely regarded as the standard reference in the field, this Handbook provides a complete overview of art therapy, from theory and research to practical applications. Leading practitioners demonstrate the nuts and bolts of arts-based intervention with children, adults, families, couples, and groups dealing with a wide range of clinical issues. ......
A Therapeutic Story With Creative Activities for Children Aged 5-10
Even though Gilly the Giraffe has many wonderful things in her life, she sometimes lacks confidence. Why does she have to stand out so much with her long neck, her long black tongue and her mosaic patches? Why do some of the other animals point and laugh at her? Can it be possible to be different and to be cool?
These 22 colorful cards provide creative ideas for art therapy with children aged 4-11. Each card gives a different prompt - from "draw yourself as a superhero" to "paint freely with your fingers" - and is brightly illustrated to help stimulate the child's imagination. Applicable for a wide range of group and ......
Building therapeutic relationships with children is one of the largest challenges faced by therapists and counselors. This simple workbook provides easy-to-implement creative ideas and activities to strengthen therapeutic relationships and address common challenges. This book is an essential companion for therapists working with children/families.
From the author of Pied Piper, you can create and run successful music therapy groups for children. With a focus on children with additional needs, it's complete with 60 activity ideas. Including sheet music and practical guidance on timings, group rules and collaboration and more, making it essential for your music therapy practice.
This book addresses a key need for child therapists--how to actively involve parents in treatment and give them tools to support their child's healthy development. Known for her innovative, creative therapeutic approach, Paris Goodyear-Brown weaves together knowledge about play therapy, trauma, attachment theory, and neurobiology. She presents ......
Beth Powell, LCSW, is a psychotherapist, neuro-behavioral educator, college professor, workshop facilitator, and author. She specializes in helping children and families heal brains, bodies, and relationships with themselves and with others due to their experience of acute and chronic trauma and loss. She has almost 30 years of professional ......
Techniques, Clinical Applications and New Perspectives
New opportunities have emerged for music therapy methods following technological advances. There is a new need for these methods integration into receptive music therapy practice which this all-new edition explores to the benefit of students and experienced music therapists a like.
100 Illustrated Handouts for Creative Therapeutic Work
100 new creative, therapeutic worksheets to explore complex emotions and enhance awareness of thoughts and feelings, based on CBT principles and art as therapy. Guidance for therapists and counsellors and case examples from the author's experience are included, making this an easy-to-use resource.
A Hands-on Guide to Personal and Professional Development
This indispensable guide is for any creative arts therapist who wants to flourish in their career. Written to inspire and motivate, it shares diverse stories and experiences spanning different career paths and decisions, and also tackles common early career challenges including designing services, advocacy, and collaborative working.
Ideas and Activities for Working with Anger and Emotional Regulation
Support children to better understand and manage their anger with this practical guide of therapeutic activities. From exploring a child's first steps in therapy to helping parents and carers with their responses, this book provides practical advice for working with children aged 4-12 and families navigating issues of anger and emotional ......
Art therapy, when combined with skills training in dialectical behaviour therapy and peer support, can teach young people new ways to regulate intense emotions and urges associated with suicidality, build healthy peer relationships, and increase a sense of purpose and personal empowerment. Practical advice will result in more confidence in using ......
This book is the authoritative presentation of contextual emotion regulation therapy (CERT), an innovative intervention expressly designed for depressed children ages 7-13 and their parents.
Art-making with fabrics and fibres is a natural and creativemethod of self-expression and can enrich the healing process.This book is a complete guide to using textiles in therapy withfemale clients.Reviewing the role of textile-based handcrafts in the lives ofwomen today, and integrating the life issues they face with thetherapeutic making of ......
A music therapy resource of 32 songs designed to aid educational and therapeutic goals of children and adults with special educational needs and on the autism spectrum. Developed by experts at the Music Therapy Program at The Center for Discovery, all music sheets are adaptable, downloadable, and ready to use in therapy and classrooms.
This book vividly shows how creative arts and play therapy can help children recover from experiences of disrupted or insecure attachment. Leading practitioners explore the impact of early relationship difficulties on children's emotions and behavior. Rich case material brings to life a range of therapeutic approaches that utilize art, music, ......
With contributions from a range of professionals within the field, this book highlights the use of art therapy with military veterans. Exploring a wide range of group settings, current programs and topics such as military sexual trauma and moral injury, it will inspire the establishment of future therapeutic programs in this area.
Officially supported and endorsed by the Theraplay Institute, this handbook provides concrete, practical assistance from international experts on deepening Theraplay knowledge and skills in a variety of areas of practice. It is essential reading for any Theraplay practitioner wanting to ensure their approach is carefully tailored to every setting.
This book presents a model of art therapy where the products and processes of art constitute the core of the model rather than serving as the impetutus for adaptions of other theories of counselling or therapy. It addresses how an arts-based approach can inform the therapist in all aspects of practice, form the conception of the work...
Creative Tools and Interventions to Nurture Therapeutic Relationships
A practical guide showing therapists how to incorporate creative interventions into counselling to help clients through art, sound, movement, symbols and poetry. It includes activities and example scripts to incorporate creativity into every step of the therapeutic journey.
Intended as a follow-up to Clark's previous book, DBT-Informed Art Therapy, this edited guide focuses on how DBT-informed art therapy works in practice with different client groups. It covers work with a wide variety of populations, such as those with suicidal behaviours, eating disorders and Borderline Personality Disorder.
Highly practical and user friendly, this book presents 58 play therapy techniques that belong in every child clinician's toolbox. The expert authors draw from multiple theoretical orientations to showcase powerful, well-established approaches applicable to a broad range of childhood problems. Activities, needed materials, and variations of each ......
Reflecting the increasing recognition of the importance of the spiritual in healing, Spirituality and Art Therapy is an exciting exploration of the different ways in which the spiritual forms an essential, life-enhancing component of a well-rounded therapeutic approach. The contributors are leading art therapists who write from diverse ......
Exploring ACT, CFT, EMDR, mindfulness and yogic practices, this much-needed professional guide increases knowledge of embodied and trauma-informed approaches to understanding and treating body dysmorphic disorder. It includes contributions from professionals and people with lived experience and features exercises for use in therapy.
A Facilitator's Guide to Using Art Therapy to Enhance Drum Circles
This concise book explains the theory behind drumming for therapy and gives practical guidance on facilitating drum circles. With a particular emphasis on incorporating art therapy, it provides step-by-step directions for making and painting drums from scratch with detailed photographs for clarity.
Transform your use of Theraplay (R) in combination with other modalities to address your clients individual needs. From advice for working with special populations to synchronising Theraplay (R) with other therapeutic models, this guide will help you to develop innovative practice informed by the latest research.
d Emotional Support including Art, Yoga, and Mindfulness
This photocopiable activity book helps teens and tweens who are feeling voiceless,ineffective or fearful in response to events at a world, community or individual level. Itincorporates exercises using art and craft, nutrition, mindfulness, yoga and othermovement based activities.This book offers dozens of suggestions, interventions, and activities ......
Arts-Based Activities and Character Education Curricula
For difficult or challenging children and teenagers in therapeuticor school settings, creative activities can be an excellent way of increasing enjoyment and boosting motivation, making thesessions more rewarding and successful for everyone involved.This resource provides over one hundred tried-and-tested funand imaginative therapeutic activities ......
For those with mobility and communication challenges, arts therapies can be especiallysignificant and rewarding as a means of self-expression and engaging with others. Thisbook provides practical guidance on multimodal and archetypal arts therapy approachesadapted specifically for a physical disability context.Practical strategies and ......
